Question follow-through · 21417
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to pay additional compensation to people impacted by the collapse of Equitable Life.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to pay additional compensation to people impacted by the collapse of Equitable Life.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been fully wound down and closed since 2016 and there are no plans to reopen any decisions relating to the Payment Scheme or review the £1.5 billion funding allocation previously made to it. Further guidance on the st...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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